DocFest
Meet, meet not quite meetmarket
6 sales agents, 1 lawyer, 1 journalist, 1 film-maker drinks down. 1 pizza and 1 roller disco to go. MeetMarket this way Directors of men who swim Niki, c4int sales agent Nina pope and Karen Guthrie, artists and directors, staying in Sheffield on a house boat. The Sheffield Eye www.jeaniefinlay.com
A late start after a late night
I finally have my delegates pass and goodies. Gave back my delegates bag as I inevitably lose them or pick up one of the other 1800 identical bags at the festival. Am trying to organise my day of meetings with (mainly) sales agents. Excited that at some point today I will meet Phil Parker, the [...]
Who’s who and who are you?
I made it, here’s the obligiatory Sheffield steel welcome. Who’s who at the hubs – awarding the TV sock prize to Axel Arno for best TV commissioner pitch. Charlie Phillips, the beating heart of MeetMarket Jason Daponte, commisioner for BBC Mobile platform and aspiring beekeeper I am ashamed to admit we went to Rutland pub [...]
So near, yet so far
In my haste to finish my various edits for Friday’s dfg group 10 x 10 event – I will be showing a teaser and two scenes from my new film Orion: the man who would be king. I missed the 2.15 train to Sheffield. I had to console myself with a volcano-hot hot chocolate and [...]
SheffDocFest minus one and counting
The edit! The night before Sheffield Doc/Fest I am doing what most directors I know are also doing. Staying up, way past my bedtime to finish cutting a trailer on my new project, to take and show to willing ears and eyes. The aim is, as always to get projects off the ground, financed, commisioned, [...]
A Virgin Doc/Fest Diary
So, here I was about to venture to the Sheffield Doc/Fest for my first time and its 15th! Expectations high and bags packed I hit the M1 and head north to Yorkshire to meet, greet and feast on the vast array of films, talks, pitches and masterclasses of the documentary world. Having checked into my [...]
Doc/Fest 08 Vod03 – Daisy Asquith
Unfazed by the backseat techniques of Mr Kern, Doc/Fest 08 Vod no.3 guest interviewer Daisy Asquith gets into the details of Animal Monday’s latest film Here’s Johnny with it’s star, Judge Dredd and 2000 AD artist Johnny Hicklenton. – DocFest 08 Vods Produced by Jan Bednarz & Simon Wan.
Doc/Fest 08 Vod02 – Emily James
Award winning documentary producer, director and 10 year Doc/Fest 08 veteran Emily James takes the reigns of Vod no. 2 and lets us in on the secrets of long-term documentary success and the alternative doc event that never was, ASS. – DocFest 08 Vods Produced by Jan Bednarz & Simon Wan.
Doc/Fest 08 Vod01 – Lee Kern
In the first of our daily Vods for Doc/Fest 08, Jan Bednarz & Simon Wan grabbed documentary’s rising star (and past DN guest) Lee Kern to helm an interview tour of some of the folks attending the festival this year, including a rather uncomfortable few minutes with yours truly.
DN Festival: Doc/Fest 2007
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] One hundred and seventy six miles north of Soho, there’s a mystical place called Sheffield, where powerful people travel from afar on an annual basis to share their documentary knowledge, and parade the results of their efforts. And for every mile delegates have to travel, there is a [...]
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